Essay on Children's Books for Notting Hill Editions

I've written an essay for Notting Hill Editions about writing for children. It's available online here - you have to register for the site, but it's well worth it. I mention the fabulous Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans, whose Molesworth books were a feature of my childhood, and which will be, I hope, a feature of many childhoods to come. This week Searle died; he was a true great. As Molesworth, the goriller of St Custards, would say, chiz chiz chiz.